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Principle 1: Design complete communities
Principle 2: Provide a linked system of streets, parkways, greenways, and spaces for growing food
Principle 3: Establish green Infrastructure systems to bound, protect and reinforce all neighborhoods
Principle 4: Shift to lighter, greener, cheaper, smarter infrastructure
Principle 5: Build a healthy economy
Principle 6: Preserve present homes. Introduce new ones.
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Principle
1: Design complete
communities
Complete communities are self-reliant, inclusive, and stable. Design a
complete Damascus area with a fine-grained and diverse mix of housing,
jobs, services, schools, parks, community facilities and natural areas
- all within walking, biking, or very short driving distance from each
other. Design a complete Damascus area so that people of diverse economic,
social, and cultural backgrounds can live, work, shop, and play comfortably.
Design a complete Damascus area in which involuntary displacement from
family and friends is not the inevitable result of decreases in income.
Principle 2: Provide a linked system of streets, parkways, greenways, and spaces for growing food
Linked systems, whether they are transportation systems or ecological associations, tend to be more efficient and healthy. Provide the Damascus area with an attractive, interconnected, and barrier-free system of public spaces, parkways, greenways, pathways, and streets that will disperse traffic, accommodate natural storm water and stream flows, lend itself to transportation choice, improve air quality, protect and restore habitat and protect and enhance opportunities to grow food locally.
Principle
3: Establish green
Infrastructure systems to bound, protect and reinforce all neighborhoods
Green infrastructure integrates natural systems into the structure of a community - to reduce cost, protect stream flows, restore habitat, enhance commercial and residential development, and to make a place a home. Provide a green infrastructure vision for Damascus that protects those areas important to maintaining streams and habitat - including forested and steep slopes, ridgelines, riparian areas, floodplains and large natural areas and wetlands - while bounding and enclosing new and existing communities.
Principle
4: Shift to lighter,
greener, cheaper, smarter infrastructure
Lighter, greener, cheaper, smarter infrastructure works with the rural landscape not against it, resulting in lower costs and a community more in keeping with its setting. For the Damascus area, this means designing safer and more neighborly "rural style" streets with less pavement and more green, all while insuring that residential enclaves use land efficiently.
Principle
5: Build a healthy
economy
A healthy economy makes wealth from the natural and human capital at hand while preserving it for the future. Design places where people of all incomes can work and live in their own community both now and in the future; where people, jobs and goods are close at hand; where movement within the community and through the community are in balance; where both locally owned and branch facilities can thrive; and where both emerging and traditional economic activities can be pursued. Visualize places where economic vitality is unimpeded by inefficient land use or by overextended, expensive and difficult to maintain infrastructure. Design places where development provides a fair return on investment over the short term while protecting value for owners and communities over the long term, maximizing the circulation of dollars within the local and regional economy.
Principle
6: Preserve present
homes. Introduce new ones.
Preserving a sense of home for present residents, while providing satisfying, affordable homes in mixed-income communities for future residents, means protecting those elements people cherish while allowing for gradual change. Produce a design vision that respects important view sheds, historical and cultural heritage, and local knowledge. Look to distinctive natural features, visual quality, climate, and existing pattern of residential development in the Damascus area to guide the introduction of new homes, job sites, and stores.